Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/07/21

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Subject: [Leica] Leica sighting in Brussels
From: philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent)
Date: Thu Jul 21 16:03:40 2005

It wasn't me, but if you stay in Brussels till Saturday we could meet. It
would be nice to see my first co-lugger live.


> From: Howard Ritter <hlritter@mindspring.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 18:55:37 -0400
> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Subject: [Leica] Leica sighting in Brussels
> 
> While attending the Belgian National Day festivities (a real treat, by the
> way, especially on the 175th anniversary of independence! Where else could
> you have seen the king and queen driven by in a c. 1970 Lincoln Continental
> 4-door convertible, close enough for the cheering subjects on either side
> practically to have reached out and touched them?), I spotted a 
> 40-something
> guy with slightly graying light brown hair, in shorts, with a 
> photographer's
> back pack, carrying a black R8 (maybe 9) with what looked like a 19mm
> Elmarit. He was busy in conversation with another, so I didn't have an
> opportunity to approach him. Made me sorry I'd left my own R9 at home in 
> the
> U.S. this trip, or I could've waved it at him.
> 
> Anyone on the list?
> 
> --howard
> 
> 
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